i worked in the ford white house at that time. and i knew the white house. i knew the white house structure. i guess better than anybody else. who was there at the moment and so i was drafted into this effort. jim baker stayed away from washington for the majority of the time left at edm used to run the transition, but we had a small team that worked towards the planning and it was just by chance, and i guess i knew knew the structure and new where new the offices that i would be put in charge of the planning for the white house piece of it. about this i'm sorry. i didn't hear your question stuart. this chris. i was gonna ask chris the same question. yeah this come to drop in your lab. well in april of 2008 i was then senator obama's legislative director. he was off on the campaign trail trying to win. he was in the middle of a heated primary contest against hillary clinton, but he had the foresight to realize that this was going to be the first post nine eleven transition and since i had been with him from his first day in the senate, i actually am a law sc

white house. i found that in the lincoln book, he gave me an opportunity to take a perspective all the as employer, as manager of the white house the way that he used it politically, socially and otherwise and i found out that it was very interesting and different from what had been written before and i thought the same thing should work with jefferson and i hope it has. and the second thing i guess is i worked in washington myself for eight or nine years in the seventies and eighties on capitol hill and elsewhere. and, a used to strike me then that and must have been an entirely different place back when he was a wilderness. i've always found that interesting and worth looking at more carefully, so those are the basic reasons why i focus on that. >> so we'll start at the beginning of the story. the election of 1800 was famously contentious and acrimonious. can you tell us a little bit about it and the john adams welcome thomas jefferson to the white house? >> well, first of all, particularly in t

this time, the entire democratic party is basically singing the same tune from the white house, to the senate, to the house of representatives. they remember what happened the last time they were in this situation in 2009 and they are not going to let what happened under president obama happen again this time. >> look at 2008 where we spent a year and a half trying to get something good done, aca, obamacare, and we didn't do all the other things that had to be done. we will not repeat that mistake. we will not repeat that mistake. >> "we will not repeat that mistake." senate majority leader chuck schumer here on this show just last week talking about the mistake that democrats made in trying to work with republicans on obamacare. "we will not make that mistake" again. just yesterday he reiterated the point to "new york daily news" talking about the 2009 stimulus, he said, "we cannot do the mistake of 2009 where they whittled down the program so the amount of relief was so small that the recession lasted four or five years." this time around the head of the budget committee in the senat

he comes with a parade to the white house and they review the white house. and then the evening events and that's when we see the inaugural balls. there can be one ball, five balls, or 14 balls. president clinton in 1993 had 14, that is the record at the present time. frequently there are six or seven and it depends on the president and their resources available, it depends sometimes on the weather as to what they're going to be able to do. it's up to them, the nature, the timing, and the expanse of these. they can have them be very elaborate or fairly simple. >>> you're watching american history tv created by america's cable television companies and we're brought to you by these companies that provide american history tv to viewers as a public service. >>> so you're on the property of dr. howard hankins. it is an industrial recycling area and he owned as much as 600 acres here and has partitioned off a couple hundred to the near by golf course. and this is a small sliver of what is remaining

and she slid right into plantation life after leaving the white house. and one of the interesting things about her, you know, the second part of her life was that she was a big pro-slavery activist. and she is the first white southern woman to really make the public argument that southern women, you know, take care of their enslaved people and that they're like family. she does this in an open letter which she publishes to the duchess of southerland who was involved in anti-slavery activities and basically tyler says butt out, mind your own business, we take care of our people. this is an argument that gets made over and over again. and it's very unique for a woman in -- a wealthy white woman in the 19th century to make this kind of an argument. and having been first lady, this really gave julia tyler a voice that she may not otherwise have had as regrettable in retrospect as what came out of that mouth actually is to us today. speaking of slavery, we've included in the exhibition a number of other things that point to the complicated lives of first ladie

he left and went back to the white house. and while he was on en route to the white house violence began to grow at the capitol, within minutes of donald trump's speech ending there were significant reports of escalating violence that began to surface. building around the capitol were starting to be evacuated. and by 1:15 an explosive device had been found at the dnc. a pipe bomb had been found at the rnc about 15 minutes earlier. the house sergeant at arms had called for immediate assistance. 1:# 34 p.m. the mayor of washington d.c. called for additional national guard troops. i won't go through all of the details of the violence that unfolded here. you just saw that. but as we walk through what our commander-in-chief did that day, i want to be very clear about what exactly what was happening here at the same time. for 40 minutes our buildings were being cleared, pipe bombs were being found. his supporters were literally breaching the perimeter of the capitol overwhelming law enforcement and you saw the violence that was occ

she said the white house has been in touch with manchin. she did not say specifically whether president biden has called him. >> that's a very good point. and, gloria, obviously when you look at joe biden's inauguration speech, it was all about unity, and yet here he is kind of coming up against the cold, hard reality. it's really just an issue of is the white house actually going to admit it at this point in time. i think back to, for instance, the obama administration when they came into power, and there was this ernest push for there to be bipartisanship when it came to a health care plan. i think it was very much generous on the side of republicans as well. in the end that's not really what ended up happening, so it's a wonder of what the lesson and the takeaway is going to be moving forward. are they really into a bipartisan push? >> i think they're making a really big bet here, brianna. and the big bet here is this covid relief package is going to be more popular with the country, including republicans in the country, than it probably

after 9/11, the white house became a fortress. use was an effort to -- an element to move it forward. >> michelle said she wanted for people who had never been to the white house be comfortable in a way. >> just get comfortable here. get comfortable with a little greatness. >> we wanted to bring in diverse bodies and people and genders. everybody, we said come on in. >> if you think this day was special and it is because we think you all are special. >> whether it is kids that got in trouble before or college dropouts. >> you belong right here in the white house. >> that is a game changer because they can see themselves there in the future. >> remember this moment and remember the first lady of the united states told us that you can do anything that you want to. >> the 2012 election is only a year away, and the president's approval rating is worrying low. but the first lady's popularity is soaring. >> people responded to her. she became far more popular than the president himself. >> so i get to speak first while he stands and watc

gwendolyn dubois shaw to white house history live. she is the national portrait gallery seniors dorian and director of history, research and scholarly programs. appointed in 2019, she is the first woman and the first african american, to hold that position. before joining the national portrait gallery, she was an associate professor of the history of art, at the university of pennsylvania. her work has focused on race, gender sexuality and class in the united states, latin america and the caribbean. in addition to the first lady's exhibit, that we will be talking about this evening, she has curated many exhibitions, and including 200 years of african american art at the university of pennsylvania at philadelphia art. the mauve clear art museum in new jersey as well. she received her ph.d. and art history from stanford university. if you'd like to ask doctor shaw the question, please write in the comments section of this life easy. we will get to as many questions as possible at the end of our program. gwendolyn dubois shaw we look for

she is outside a very snowy white house this morning.h for being up early with us on this very chilly february day. i actually -- i would like to start by talking through the coronavirus relief plan here and what we learned in the wake of that meeting. two hours is a really long time for the president to spend having this kind of a conversation. clearly, it was much different than the way many of these chats went during the trump administration. but the bottom-line question is whether they came away thinking that they could actually negotiate in good faith and get a deal that was big enough for president biden to feel confident it would actually help people. what's your sense of how this meeting went and what it means for what happens next? >> reporter: well, you're right, kasie, no one walked out of this meeting in dramatic fashion, as we so often saw with the trump administration when he would meet with democrats. but you know, no one was really getting into the nuts and bolts of this negotiation in this meeting. you could maybe call t

has the white house reached out? press sec. psaki: we have been in touch with senator manchin as we have been for many weeks and will continue to be moving forward. not only is a -- is he a key partner to the president and the white house on this package, but on his agenda. he will remain in close touch with him. reporter: in regards to myanmar what efforts are being made to coordinate a response of allies like the japan, eu, and britain and has there been contact with china? press sec. psaki: we have had intensive consultations at multiple levels with allies and partners in the region and around the world. i would expect many of those would come through the state department. i would refer to them for more specifics. reporter: in your statement last night when you said you might take action, you refer to it as myanmar and burma, and the president statement he only uses it that she only refers to it as burma. is that indication of a formal shift in how we refer to that area? press sec. psaki: our official policy is use burma off

rally at the white house. and what's driving them, they -- you know, jonathaand i were talking about this today. this is politics as almost a cult, right? not a cult, certainly a cult of personality around the president. and the president led his supporters to believe that there was some sort of nefarious plot to steal an election from him, an election that he clearly lost, that there's no evidence was rigged or was any -- was tampered in any way. tampered with in any way. so -- i think that's the main core of it, right? i think we have -- there's this group of people who listen to what the president says and, you know, were not involved in politics before him and might not be involved in politics after him and they hang on every word and every word he said for weeks was the vice president can overturn this. he can reverse this. and i think that's what's driving them. i think -- and that's why a lot of them were not wearing masks. because the president, you know, said you don't have to wear masks for many, man

mark meredith has more live from the white house. mark. >> good evening president biden is spending his weekend at camp david we're waiting to see what wife white house there may be to news regarding impeachment but as this town is focused on impeachment there are still grows questions about nursing home deaths. we did see the governor of new york andrew cuomo here at the white house yesterday he had a chance to meet with president biden as well as other governs as they were talking about this covid relief package, this bill that stimulus package that the administration has been eager to get passed the white house press secretary was asked after the meeting, if the administration stand behind cuomo gwinn new allegations of a coverup. >> the president hosted governor cuomo and a bipartisan group of governs and mayors to the white house today to get their perspective from the frontlines. not to give anyone a stamp of approval or seek their stamp of approval, and to discuss the urgency of passing the american rescue plan. >> now cuomo i

the white house reporting team here is using the tools of journalism.arly someone leaked to this, they wanted people to know that this was happening and they were upset about it. i think that's good, that's a sign the white house reporters are taking this seriously. >> i think that's great. they also the same kind of issues with the obama administration. and the press should push back here, marie, i know you have been in some of those tough briefings. and of course it would be great to have all the questions ahead of time because you know exactly what you're getting into. we don't get that in life, we should not get that impressive briefing you should not get it on tests. you don't get the questions in advance. >> that is actually not what we're talking about here. first of all then saki has done a great job of bringing back the daily press briefing and actually answering reporters questions every single day that's really good for our democracy. they are not screening questions britta someone who sits at a podium every single spokesperson of both partie

i am not saying that is acceptable, but it was not an issue related to the white house or a white house policy. he is the first to acknowledge this is not the standard of behavior set out by the president or me, and i am his direct supervisor. in addition to his apology, he sent the reporter a personal note expressing his profound regret. he has been placed on a one-week suspension without pay. that is a significant step. i am not aware of the history of that step taken. in addition, when he returns, he will no longer be assigned to work with reporters at politico. nobody wants anyone to be uncomfortable. that is not behavior we will tolerate. those were the steps taken. >> but he will be working with female reporters. it was not just a hostile conversation. the language he was alleged to have used -- what are you doing to deal with that? press sec. psaki: it is completely unacceptable. he knows that. we have had conversations with him. that is why we contacted immediately following their conversation my colleague, reached out to an editor at playbook to convey our apology. to be clear,

that's why he invited them over here to the white house.ined the specifics of what he would like to see in the package andin his prime time sph a few weeks ago. there are some realities as we look at what the american people are going through right now. 1 in seven families don't have enough food to eat. we don't have funding to reopen schools. we don't have enough money to ensure we can get the vaccine in the arms of americans. so there are some real impacts which he will certainly reiterate as he has publicly and privately in many conversations, but they've put forth some ideas, he's happy to hear from them, but he also feels strongly about the need to make sure the size of the package meets this moment, and feels the american people expect that of their elected officials as well. >> reporter: the statement the president put out, he says, the united states are standing with the people of burma in this difficult hour. is that perhaps a message to china? >> i think it's a message to all countries in the region and countries who, you know, wi

what is the white house saying about this meeting. >> reporter: she sounded upbeat there and the white cordial meeting. in this white house statement, they are saying president biden will not settle for a package that they say fails to meet the moment and the other key part of this readout from the white house that siticks out is every part of this rescue america plan crafted and proposed is carefully designed to meet the moment they say. what you can read into those words, anderson, there is not a lot in this package the white house wants to change. they said maybe they would, you know come down a little bit on stimulus checks there is room for compromise on that. they have the process on capitol hill to get democratic support from the proposal does not sound like this meeting will result and come closer to the republican proposal will look like given the white house noted how much -- how smaller it is i guess you would say to put it bluntly. >> there is a wide gap between what the president wants and obviously, what the senators want, you know, and what they're putting forward. what

we appreciate it. >>> there's also developments on the white house front. president biden and first lady jill biden have just left the white house. they did not answer questions from the pool that was gathered there on the south lawn, especially about that breaking news overnight, the pentagon this morning now defending the u.s. air strikes, targeting buildings used by iranian-backed militias in syria near the border of iraq. you can see this map here. one report from the syrian observatory for human rights say at least 22 people were killed. iranian people are reporting at least 17. this was in retaliation for rocket attacks earlier this month that killed a u.s. military contractor and it is the first known use of military force by the biden administration. >> we're confident that that target was being used by the same shia militia that conducted the strikes. we're very deliberate about our approach as you would expect us to be. we allowed and encouraged the iraqis to investigate and develop intelligence and that was very helpful to us in refining the targ

peter alexander is still posted up at the white house. and peter, you heard the president make a reference to something that we had a conversation about with austan gooslbee, that private-sector jobs, right, seem to be, frankly, paralyzed at the moment. >> reporter: yeah, that's right. he said over 6,000 new private-sector jobs created in the last month. the key sentence, i think, there was you can't do something too big, but you could do something too small here, clearly, for this white house, for this president. then the vice president in 2019. -- 2009, the lesson they learned from the last recovery act they pursued. you can see democrats in the room pumping their fists. it's no doubt democrats are on board. the question now is whether they can bring some republicans on board, hold onto those moderate democrats right now, and really present this as a unifying, a bipartisan effort, and not sort of hammering home what some critics of his view as a strictly democratic effort. >> peter alexander, live for us there. thank you. >>> coming up

how does the white house view that as any different?> look, the president is -- joe biden is the president. he's not a pundit. he's not going to opine on the back-and-forth arguments, nor is he watching them that are taking place in the senate. >> reporter: let me ask you about the covid relief package. yesterday the ways and means committee democrats proposed limiting the $1,400 direct payments to those making $75,000 or less. is that something that president biden supports and does he have any concerns that progressives might not be on board with that? >> the president has conveyed from the beginning that he's open to having a discussion about the thresholds. he's been firm in his resolve that americans should be made whole on the $2,000 checks which would mean that -- be maintaining his firmness on the $1,400 checks. there's been a discussion about the thresholds and what thould should look like. he doesn't feel that families making over $250,000 a year should be the target of this stimulus. it will reach a certain top threshold wher

that's why he invited them over here to the white house.of what he would like to see in the package and his speech -- in his primetime speech a few weeks ago. and there are some realities as we look at what the american people are going through. one in seven american families do not have enough food to eat. we're not going to have enough funding to reopen schools. we don't have enough money to ensure we can get the vaccine in the arms of americans. so there's some real impacts, which he will certainly reiterate as he has publicly and privately in many conversations but they've put forward some ideas. he's happy to hear from them. but he also feels strongly about the need to make sure the size of the package meets this moment and the american people expect that of their elected officials as well. >> can i ask you -- >> sure. >> the united states is taking note of people of burma at this critical hour. is that a message to china? >> i think it's a question to all countries in the region and countries who will be asked to respond or to conside

joining me now nbc chief white house correspondent, "weekend today" co-host peter alexander, garrett haake on capitol hill, brendan buck, former senior adviser to house speakers paul ryan and john boehner, and former maryland democratic congresswoman debra everets and former senator claire mccaskill. peter first to you. let's start with the covid relief package. the white house releasing a statement after that monday meaning with republicans saying the president is open to reconciliation, but the republicans are in the conversation. so where do we stand? are democrats on the progressive side getting nervous he'll compromise too much, or are all saying he'll go big even if it means going it alone? >>. >> reporter: when everybody was said and done last night, it was clear president biden, this white house wasn't really giving much ground here. they say that the meeting was substantive and productive but at the end of the day he said they had to meet this moment. the decision is whether to go big and go it alone or scale back this american rescue plan with some republican support. white

he looked over at jack, his admiration and pride was unmistakable. >> i think everything in the white houseohn f. kennedy invites you to visit the president's house and see some of the restorations she's made in its interior -- >> the record 80 million viewers watched jackie's tour. donations to her restoration project flood in. >> are all the pieces from lincoln's time? >> yes, they are. the most famous one, of course, is the lincoln bed. every president seemed to love it. >> it got rave reviews. there were governors' wives all over the country who were saying, we have to do this with the governor's mansion. >> it was bought by mrs. lincoln. she made her husband cross, he thought she spent too much money. >> people tended to underestimate her intelligence, which was considerable. the whole historic preservation movement in this country owes a great debt of gratitude to her. >> the dictatorship of fidel castro -- >> three months into the presidency, the kennedy administration suffers its first major setback. the cia-backed invasion of cuba ends in disaster. >> reality really bit both kenned

the white house office of records management managed that process in the white house. when folks were either running out of room and had to fill up a box or as they were leaving would fill up the boxes with paper records, give to records management that would then help organize them, mark them, identify them, box one of three, two of 3, 3 of three, and hopefully with every folder says, and then put them in a place where we could pick them up in our fans and trucks -- va ns and trucks which we did. nara has a service that we have done for decades which is where we provide courtesy storage. while the president is in office we get the paper records into our building in washington during the presidency as they start to retire them on an ongoing basis. by transition time we have the majority of the paper records already in custody because we have been storing them. it kind of works out. then we pick up the rest and on a two-term presidency we can start picking up as they are nearing the end of the administration starting in the fall. we can send trucks over. in a one term t

and they marched from the white house to the capitol in the capitals of the white house that's what theyo every single time and that's what happened the time president trump did not do anything to incite this this is a sham and are 45 senators haverty said they don't think it's legit so there's no ways going to go through. but they should hold the democrats especially some of the stuff that they have said which is much, much more suggestive than anything president trump has suggested to upset. there is a double standard and we will continue to see this as time goes on and they will continue to get cover from the far left in the liberal press on everything that they say. jon: texas congressman and former white house physician doctor ronny jackson. thank you. jon: in california places of worship are opening their doors for indoor services for the first time since may. this comes after the supreme court rules california governor gavin newsom ban on indoor worship is unconstitutional. christina coleman live in santa monica with more on that. >> good evening john, many parishioners are gratef

white house. the key differences between these two plans, and what is it that the -- that the biden administration says that they absolutely won't accept? >> well, the price tag is a big difference given how big the numbers are and how far apart they are. that's something that the white house focused on today, but even when you look inside these packages you can see some differences, though there's similarities in what they are laying out in the proposals and allotments for different areas are pretty different and one of them is the stimulus checks that, of course, we have seen laid out, the $1,400 checks in the proposal from the white house but what the republicans are suggesting are narrow concerns, heard some concerns over centrist democrats over what that look like and who exactly it would be that would qualify for them but what this group of republicans being led by susan collins by putting this forward is saying there is a path to a coronavirus relief bill that could get bipartisan support.

the white house thank you campbell. let's take you back to our top story now marse ambassador to the u.n. has called on world leaders city everything they can see protect his people from the country's army process against the coun february force continue to spread nation wide well let's get you more now we can speak with way nin she's the campaign's officer burma campaign u.k. her father who is also an activist in his student days was jailed by the military just after that coup she joins us now live from london by sky good to have you with us on the news. i imagine you were watching the the special assembly at the u.n. very closely today can i just are asking what you maids of those interventions because there were some very powerful speeches made not just by your ambassador to the u.n. but also by the u.s. ambassador in the special envoy who. what what do you make of this and how do you think this is going to affect protesters who are still in myanmar facing for a change. it's very encouraging is very encouraging for u

now with white house counsel pat a. cipollone backing him mr. barr told the president he could not manufacture evidence. the allegations about manipulated voting machines were ridiculously false, he added. lawyers propagating them led by mr. giuliani were clowned. mr. trump paused, thought about it and said, maybe." the "times" reports for the first time the lawsuit filed by the texas attorney general and joined by other republican state attorneys general was actually written by some donald trump lawyers. "at mr. trump's urging, the republican attorneys general association made one final play asking mr. barr to back the suit. he refused on december 11th. the court declined to hear the case ruling that texas had to right to challenge other states' votes." one republican attorney general who refused to participate in that case was chris karr of georgia. "that prompted a call from the president who warned mr. carr not to interfere, an aide to the attorney general confirmed." there's yet another call that donald trump made to georgia that could be a

in fact he received two vaccine shots himself while donald trump was still in the white house -- white house. he promised covid-19 vaccines would be available for all americans by the end of july, we are talking 600 million does is give or take biden and his comment late in the evening about minorities don't know how to get online in response to a question about racial disparities, will likely get a bit of attention tomorrow as well. an interesting night to be sure. shannon: we will break the statements down and to get a little bit more. severe winter weather continues its grip on most of texas tonight, skyrocketing energy demand and put stress on the grid to trigger rolling blackouts. cold, dark areas seen in stark contrast to the bright city skylines in houston and also in houston power outages sending freezing residents looking for refuge. many opting for fast food restaurants and that is resulting in huge lines of cars, makeshift locations are serving as emergency shelters for folks suffering from frigid temperatures inside their own homes can find some help tonight. another coal-f

she's talking about the memoirs, a talks about her second term in the white house. it's got some pretty serious stuff in it. also one of the things i always feel so interesting, that people in her, -- eleanor's contemporaries felt she was very forthright and honest she was just putting it out there, whereas i think for us when we read her memoirs and autobiography, we think this is kind of bland. i read it and i think, boy she's not telling you the whole story. in fact, i'm teaching a class this semester and i'm having my students read the autobiography just to get a sense of the scope of eleanor's life, and i spent 15 minutes of every class time saying look, i know this is what she wrote, but this is what's really going on. because i don't want them to think that one is all surface in light. sudden like this book, and he wanted her to spend three months working with a collaborator. in fact, he wanted her to ditch, he wanted color and drama, he wanted the inside story. she didn't want to do it. so her son elliott at that time was her representative, and so elliott j

she's a former state department spokesperson and white house communications director in the obama white house, barack obama's traveling press secretary for his first presidential run, a veteran of capitol hill and a former cnn contributor. but this role is her highest profile possession yet, approaching a job with what she jokes with her obsessive ten dansys. >> i try to be conscious like a laid back cat, but i have a color coded with kiend of printd labels. >> to watching hours of white house briefings back to the '90s and she sought advise from her predecessors, both democrats and republicans. >> one of the consistent pieces of advice is to remember who your audience is and who you are speaking to and that you are speaking on behalf of the president and the white house, but you are speaking really to the american public. >> she did reveal a few details of the note that kaiyleigh mcenany left with her. it was about a conversation the two had had in the past where they talk about serving in the white house is the honor of a lifetime and, brian, she calls that a very nice note. >> thank

joining me from the white house is nbc's chief white house correspondent kristen welker, and from capitoll leigh ann caldwell. kristen, let's start with covid relief and the talks biden has had back to back, the ten republicans and then today with the senate democratic caucus. what's been the message? is there -- are they -- are we officially in a moment where we can say they're negotiating with republicans? or are they just talking? >> reporter: i think they're talking, chuck, with the intention to keep talking. i am told these talks are going to continue right through the moment that this legislation is passed because it's my sense that the white house is just not going to back off of its $1.9 trillion proposal. and speaking to officials here just moments ago they reenforced what we have heard from president biden from the start which is that he got to that number because he believes that's what's necessary to get the vaccine rollout to where it needs to be, to get the aid that state and local governments need, and to get those direct checks to americans. now, again, just to put this in

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let's get straight to the white house right now and kaitlan collins. the president is strongly defending his pandemic stimulus package. update our viewers. >> reporter: he is. and what president biden said in the oval office tonight is that he doesn't understand how republicans can oppose this plan though we should note they did for the majority since no congressional republicans have actually embraced or signed on or said that they would vote for this bill. but president biden is touting it as integral to his pandemic response and how the next few months will look and how the plan could shape this. but this comes as there are new questions about the white house's embrace or i guess rather lack thereof new cdc guidance on reopening schools and whether or not teachers should be vaccinated in order to do so. on track to get his coronavirus relief bill passed by next month, president biden said today republicans who don't support it are making a mistake. >> i asked a rhetorical question. those who oppose the plan. what didon't they like, what particular p

in one term the republican party has lost the white house, house representatives and senate. that hasn't happened since herbert hoover in 1932. so i think that there is a whole bunch of stuff the party of lincoln and reagan needs to do to persuade people we have a 2030 agenda, not a 30 minute twitter agenda. >>> turning now to the pandemic. during a cnn town hall last night, joe biden defended his $1.9 trillion relief bill. >> now is the time we should be spending, now is the time to go big. we can come roaring back. it is estimated that if we pass this bill alone, we'll create 7 million jobs this year. i think bigger and the vast majority of the serious people say bigger is better now. not spending less. >> meanwhile the biden administration has also announced a sharp increase in the amount of vaccine doses they are sending out to the states. >> we're increasing the vaccine supply to 13.5 million oses per week, that will go out to states. this is a 57% increase since the president was inaugurated. >> and also upping the number of covid vaccines sent to 40,000 local pharmacie

let's go right to the white house, chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins joining us once againhopes for a bipartisan relief bill, hopes appear to be nfading. >> reporter: both chambers of congress passed this resolution, it is paving the way for democrats to keep moving forward with the bill, keep pushing it ahead. they're looking to mov

when people go for dinner at the white house, do they ever like the silverware? >> it's been known to happen. >> there's some beautiful old silver that says it's engraved at the president's house and we just upped using it because we didn't have enough pieces to use, it because it had been taken. whenever you something that you would see at any caterer so that there's less desire to take it. >> but president obama would actually sit at holiday parties, take the napkins, take the towels downstairs in the restrooms. you don't take the silverware because it is rented. it is not from here. because it is somewhat natural. also liu told me about this. for the name plates at each place, and eagle that is very attractive. yes they would take it. so i was told very early on to pick up those before desert. because most people don't think about it until it gets towards the end. now one of the problems was when we would be short, there was no budget to buy that. it was pulling teeth. 50 dollars each. if we were short it wasn't like we will get the slush fund to pay for it. we

so that is the public stance from the white house. look, privately there have to be some folks in that building behind me that are breathing a sigh of relief because they know that this minimum wage increase in this reconciliation bill is divisive. it didn't have support of all democrats. instead of having to negotiate it and potentially having the two moderate democrats sink this $1.9 trillion covid relief bill is off the table. they don't have to worry about it. as my colleague daniella said, it makes it more likely this can pass with 50 senate votes, with vice president harris doing that tie-breaking vote. cnn had learned that white house officials were counting on it being taken so that they could have this outcome. now president biden has said that he wanted this provision in, but he also was cognizant as a creature of the senate that it may not make it in. now of course president biden has said he would be looking possibly if it didn't get in to proposing it in another bill. so we'll see if that happens. but, again, this is a go

let's go right to the white house, chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins joining us once again. the president's early hopes for a bipartisan relief bill, hopes appear to be nfading. >> reporter: both chambers of congress passed this resolution, it is paving the way for democrats to keep moving forward with the bill, keep pushing it ahead. they're looking to move quickly it seems like. if you listen to house speaker nancy pelosi, they're going to start to craft that legislation next week, hope to have it passed by end of the month, definitely passed by middle of march. jobless benefits start to run out, that's the threat the white house referenced so much. wolf, here's the catch. no republicans are on board. they're opposed to this. despite calls for bipartisanship and invitations for republicans to the white house, president biden now appears ready to move on without them. >> they're just not willing to go as far as i think we have to go. >> reporter: president biden making clear in the strongest terms yet, he won't wait for republicans to pass his pandemic relief bill. >> what

so the individual piece the white house believes is popular. t it gets hard now when the more progressive house thinks some of those proposals are absolutely essential. but then you get over to the 50/50 senate where biden's going to lose. the question is how much is he prepared to lose? >> so, you've heard president biden actually talk for a little bit in the last couple of weeks being skeptical that the $15 per hour minimum wage increase would actually survive. because of the senate parliamentarian issue that jeff discussed earlier. managing expectations. but, yes, he is running against, first of all, certainly a progressive force in the senate and in the house who are adamant about putting this minimum wage increase on their obviously senator sanders, leader of the senate budget committee a key force behind this. but also senator joe manchin and senator kyrsten sinema who oppose this for various reasons. if the senate parliamentarian does decide that the minimum wage increase is allowable, then how much does the biden white house, how much do

and i think people want to know what the white house position is on that. >> the white house position is that -- and the president and vice president believe that teachers should be prioritized for receiving the vaccination. along with other frontline workers. and in at least 22 states and the district of columbia, that's exactly what's happening. >> prioritized is one thing. there's wide agreement they should be prioritized, and why not? is it necessary, though? that's the question. it really is a yes/no question. >> well, john, i think the real question, frankly, if i can be frank here is what you are getting to is, is it safe for kids to go back to school? and the president and vice president -- >> actually not. in this case, the question is, is it safe for teachers to go back to school. that's a very specific question in this case. and again, i'm not sure -- i don't understand why it's a hard question to answer. it may be that you want every teacher to be vaccinated. it may be the answer is, yeah, teachers should, if they can be vaccinated before they return to school, but it's no